by Iona Lillicrap | Mar 20, 2025 | Careers Advice, Redundancy
With 32% of UK businesses in 2025 planning to reduce headcount either through redundancies or by recruiting fewer staff, the need for redundancy support has never been more pressing. (CIPD, Labour Market Outlook) We asked our Managing Director, Mike Burgneay, for his...
by Iona Lillicrap | Mar 6, 2025 | Employer brand, Organisational culture, Outplacement, Redundancy, Retention, Uncategorized
My story is not unique—between May and July of 2024 alone, approximately 82,000 people faced redundancy (ONS). However, the troubling trend doesn’t end there… As we enter 2025, the UK is experiencing the largest wave of redundancies in a decade (excluding the...
by Iona Lillicrap | Feb 18, 2025 | Outplacement, Redundancy
Making a business case for outplacement—especially at scale—can be challenging, even for the most experienced HR leaders. But with redundancy intentions for UK firms at their highest in over 10 years, the need to support employees through transition has never been...
by Iona Lillicrap | Feb 11, 2025 | Retention, Stay Interviews
Stay interviews are often seen as the opposite of exit interviews, which focus on why an employee is leaving. But let’s take a closer look. What are stay interviews? What Are Stay Interviews? A stay interview is a proactive conversation—typically...
by Iona Lillicrap | Jan 30, 2025 | Retention, Stay Interviews
With the rising turnover rates, companies cannot afford to ignore how stay interviews improve retention. In December of last year, we saw the worrying figure of nearly one quarter (23%) of workers in the UK planning to leave their jobs within the short term – a 3%...
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